@article{OPUS4-15014,
  title     = {Search for metastable heavy charged particles with large ionisation energy loss in pp collisions at \(\sqrt {s}\) = 8 TeV using the ATLAS experiment},
  series = {European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields},
  volume    = {75},
  journal   = {European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields},
  number    = {9},
  organization    = {ATLAS Collaboration},
  doi       = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3609-0},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-150149},
  pages     = {407},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Many extensions of the Standard Model predict the existence of charged heavy long-lived particles, such as R-hadrons or charginos. These particles, if produced at the Large Hadron Collider, should be moving non-relativistically and are therefore identifiable through the measurement of an anomalously large specific energy loss in the ATLAS pixel detector. Measuring heavy long-lived particles through their track parameters in the vicinity of the interaction vertex provides sensitivity to metastable particles with lifetimes from 0.6 ns to 30 ns. A search for such particles with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider is presented, based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 18.4 fb\(^{-1}\) of pp collisions at \(\sqrt {s}\) = 8 TeV. No significant deviation from the Standard Model background expectation is observed, and lifetime-dependent upper limits on R-hadrons and chargino production are set. Gluino R-hadrons with 10 ns lifetime and masses up to 1185 GeV are excluded at 95 \% confidence level, and so are charginos with 15 ns lifetime and masses up to 482 GeV.},
  language  = {en}
}